University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Percussion Professor Eric Willie stops by to talk about the job there (05:00), his time in Brazil studying Maracatu earlier this year on a Fulbright Fellowship (25:45), growing up in West Tennessee and his time in DCI (40:40), his undergrad career at the University of Tennessee-Martin and Austin Peay University (TN) (49:20), attempting the band director thing and eventually heading to the University of Kentucky for his masters (55:50), teaching in a challenging situation at Wisconsin-Whitewater for a year (01:08:45), heading to North Texas for his doctorate, working at Tennessee Tech, and the reasons he took the UNCG job (01:16:20), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on percussion literature, the Indiana Jones movies and his love of popcorn (01:40:15).

Finishing with a Rave on attending live events (02:03:00).

Links:

Eric Willie’s homepage

Eric Willie’s UNCG page

Megan Arns’ 2016 appearance on the podcast

Alexandros Fragiskatos’ 2019 appearance on the podcast

Cort McClaren’s 2022 appearance on the podcast

David Steinquest’s 2022 appearance on the podcast

Fulbright Scholarship

Maracatu

Kris Keeton

Michael Burritt